Elmore James Quotes

#1. Drying up in conversation, You will be the one who cannot talk, All your insides fall to pieces, You just sit there wishing you could still make love.

Thom Yorke

#2. I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

John Niven

#3. When I refuse to go deeper, my faith lingers in the shallow.

Suzanne Eller

#4. I get it. I understand. I'm just kind of reconfiguring my hard drive now," she says, tapping her skull. "And finding room for this new data point about you.

Lauren Blakely

#5. Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?

Hermann Hesse

#6. When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#7. if i add that my uncle took mathematical strides of exactly three feet, and that, while walking, he firmly clenches his fists-the sign of an impetuous temperament-then you will know him well enough not to wish to spend too much time in his company

William Butcher

#8. Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.

Frank Zappa

#9. I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

Imelda May

#10. It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

Lou Gramm

#11. We often deserve our enemies.
We rarely deserve our friends.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#13. I've been acting since I was 2 and have always been on camera but doing a video is different because when you're acting, you pretend the camera's not there and you just do the scene and with a music video you're right in the camera so it feels weird sometimes.

Corbin Bleu

#14. It's been scattered and I had to follow leads. Some stuff was with different family members in various drawers. I find out about more stuff and more stuff [over time]. I won't call it a treasure hunt, but it's like an old Western movie we're you're onto one thing and it turns into another.

Aaron Brookner

#15. A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

George Oppen

#16. I couldn't imagine choosing shopping when sex was an option.

Cindi Madsen

#17. I might not have had the tools at my disposal that my opponents had, but I created advantages of my own.

Ronda Rousey

#18. I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

M. Ward

#19. Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

Edward Bellamy

#20. I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

Imelda May